Platform Engineer

Are you ready to spearhead the maturity and continuous development of our Kubernetes platform? Do you aspire to become key enabler in a team that is uniquely positioned to advance the future of Kamstrup’s cloud-native journey? Are you motivated by running cross-collaborative projects and looking for a role where your contributions have a direct impact on the company's success?

Become a part of our team working with Infrastructure and Platform Engineering
Kamstrup is a Danish technology company and a world leading supplier of intelligent metering solutions and services. We have a strong focus on developing the most innovative and value-adding intelligent metering solutions and services for energy- and water consumption. Our ambition is to transform meter data into insights that will help utilities optimize the production and distribution of clean water and energy. To ensure we deliver our solutions faster and with high quality we need a stable and resilient platform. Therefore, we are looking for a new Platform Engineer who is driven by continuous improvement of our Kubernetes platform.

With direct reference to our Head of Application Support, you will become part of our team which consists of 9 skilled colleagues with various backgrounds such as IT Infrastructure Architects, Platform Engineers, Database Administrators, DevOps Engineers, and a Graduate. Our team is the backbone of our digital transformational journey towards working with modern and microservices architecture. We are a growing and motivated team responsible for providing the platforms for our development teams and designing the infrastructure specifications. The team is characterized by a transparent culture and high ambitions, where good collegiality, diversity, knowledge sharing, and sparring is highly valued.

A job with focus on developing and optimizing a globally scaled platform
As our new Platform Engineer, your main responsibility will be to oversee governance, capacity management, and running of Kubernetes platform, maintained by our vendor, based on the needs of our developers. Your focus will revolve around simplifying the workflow for Kamstrup developers, enabling them to create and deploy high-quality software more effectively. Therefore, you will play a key role in streamlining the process of transforming innovative ideas into production-ready solutions.

More specifically, you will be:

• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to optimize platform performance and reliability
• Continuously evaluating our platform roadmap, and adopting new technologies to improve our platform
• Focusing on maintaining processes to ensure continuous deployment, vulnerability mitigation, disaster-recovery control, FinOps, and compliance
• Acting as a valued advisor, providing support and guidance to our consumers and map requirements to our vendor provided product

Personality matters
We are looking for a proactive Platform Engineer who would like to act as a liaison between vendor product and internal developer requirements. We imagine that you have a bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field combined with a minimum 3 years of experience working with designing, deploying, and managing Kubernetes/OpenShift clusters.

It is a requirement that you have experience with:

• Docker/Kubernetes as well as GitLab, CICD framework, and Pipeline deployments
• DevOps tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, GitHub Enterprise, and other CNCF-related tools
• Role Based Access Control, Authentication, and Authorization mechanisms
• Azure cloud resource setup and management

Experience with the following is considered an advantage:

• Log, event data analysis, and data streaming tools like OpenSearch, Kafka, and RedPanda
• Design and implementation of Helm charts, Flux, and Velero backup
• Infrastructure as code using Terraform (networking principles, virtual networks, and VPNs)

As a person, you are naturally curious and continuously seek new challenges where you secure a balanced mix between new and existing frameworks, allowing you to translate your insights into achievable solutions. With your structured approach, you can manage several ongoing tasks, and prioritize efficiently so you can reach set deadlines. You thrive in a collaborative environment and with your naturally positive mindset and attitude to take charge, you can easily establish strong relations and ensure efficient collaboration across the organization.

It is a requirement that you are fluent in English, both written and spoken.

We offer more than just a job
In this position, you will become a part of a growing, international cleantech company. You will experience great opportunities to influence and impact our future platforms and technologies. Moreover, you will have a unique opportunity to grow the area, influence our platform choices and a chance to leave your own mark by shaping our platform roadmap.

We offer flexible working hours and numerous employee benefits at our headquarters, including a healthy canteen, free fruit, fitness facilities, in-house dental clinic, hairdresser, and a free health clinic. Moreover, we have an active employee association.

Do you want to be a part of Kamstrup?
Please submit your application by using the link below. Applications are reviewed on a continuous basis, and you can expect a response within six weeks.

The job will be located at Kamstrup's headquarters in Stilling, between Aarhus and Skanderborg.

If you have any questions about the position, please contact Head of Application Support, Anushree Pandey on phone: +45 89 93 10 00.